Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.

We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.

At the end of the day, the Detroiter may be the most important American there is because no one knows better than he that we're all standing at the edge of the shaft.

And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.

But wanderlust is like a pretty girl - you wake up one morning, find she's grown old and decide that either you're going to commit your life or you're going to walk away.

In Detroit, we all talked the race game. It is a way of life.

PEOPLE DIE THEIR ENERGY DON'T!

Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective.

I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets," I say in my best seductive voice.

When most I wink, then do my eyes best see